1942 (Durham High "Messenger" via DigitalNC) 1001 Monmouth in the background, looking south. Caption reads: " In only sizeable snow of the year, students walk to school on icy streets. The high school is three blocks away. Charles Amis, in the foreground, must have forgotten something, since he is heading in the wrong direction, away from school."...

(The Rotarian, Summer 1929) Not sure of the exact location of this, but Jean Anderson noeds that it was at "Roxboro Road and the Eno River." She notes: "It was the Rotary Club, for example, that began a school lunch program in 1924 for poor children, made loans to high school boys to enable them to remain in school, and persuaded the YMCA to...

From the Forest Hills NR: Steed Rollins House. Set on a large corner lot, the 2-story brick side- gable Colonial Revival-style house has a shallow front-gable wing, an entrance with 4-pane transom, a front pent roof sheltering the façade, and a dentil cornice. Other features are 6-over-9 and 6-over-6 sash windows with molded lintels, wide flanking...

Looking west from Blackwell's Durham Tobacco company down Dandy (later Jackson) Street, 1880s. (Courtesy Herald-Sun) The 100 and 200 blocks of Jackson St., initially called Dandy St., were developed as housing for workers at Blackwell's Durham Tobacco Co. one block away. It appears that at least some of this housing was company-built, but I haven't...

1999 Built in 1947 Amos and Bessie Paylor appear to have built the house; Amos is listed as a porter at Sears in 1949. By 1951, he was an employee at Duke Hospital, and his wife Bessie was running "Paylor's Snack Shop" out of the house on Hanover. The Paylors were still resident in 1961. William Mack was resident in recent years until 2013; Mr...

2013 Built in 1926 as a duplex. Resident in 1927 = Walter Walker. Resident in 1928=Archie Jones. 1961: George Smith; Thelma M. Prince.